Jack Carney Sr., DSW Archive

VIII – Concluding Considerations: North Country Forums: Answers to the questions I’ve posed above will come from the bottom-up, from friends and family and neighbors, not from government bureaucrats or politicians or treatment providers stuck with commonplace solutions that don’t …

VII — The North Country: “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”- Mark Twain, apocryphal “It’s the longest river in America, making its way throughout the entire country. Let’s hope that its North Country traverse will be short and easily crossed.” – Jack …

V – “Best Practice” Treatments – or Are They?: Working class white Americans are now finding themselves caught up in adverse circumstances comparable to those in which working class black Americans, indeed all poor Americans, regardless of ethnic heritage, have …

III – Causes, Consequences, Questionable Remedies: Contrary to everything I was ever taught about drug addiction twenty-five years ago, the opioid analgesics, led by OxyContin, are now the gateway drugs to all other addictive drugs, particularly heroin.

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful And murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity To pure wind.” – George Orwell I — Introduction: Advertisement This is a “how-to”, or primer, for persons addicted to opioids or …

I feel obliged to write about the 2 black American men and 8 police officers who were killed in Baton Rouge, St. Anthony and Dallas within the last three weeks, murders that have catalyzed some Americans to protest in the …

Part III: Conclusion — Music to March To: Armies march on their stomachs. Social movements for change march in tune to the music in their heads, to the music its members make together. The labor movement had an entire catalogue …

Part II — Resistance: Judging by nationwide commentary, the following appear to be among the issues that have caused the greatest divisions in the country and turned our cultural mix toxic. Accordingly, they are the precisely the ones around which …

Part I — Little Has Changed: “It’s the guns,” a friend of mine posted on Facebook the day after the San Bernardino shootings. Yes, I agree it’s the guns, particularly the assault rifles. Yes, they should be registered, as New …

Greetings. It seems that somebody’s passing is the only thing that will stir me sufficiently to write about what’s going on in this benighted country. I had anticipated writing this a week or two ago but I got sidetracked. It’s …